The phrase "altering behavior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, behavior modification, or discussions about changing habits or actions.
Example: "The therapy sessions focused on altering behavior to improve the patient's overall mental health."
Alternatives: "modifying behavior" or "changing behavior."
Most important, it is ineffective in altering behavior.
In part they were helping to fulfill the Army's goal of not so much changing racial attitudes as altering behavior; to some extent they were carrying out orders -- to treat one another with respect regardless of race.
Reversal learning may conceptually be dissected into acquiring stimulus reinforcement associations and subsequently altering behavior by switching to new associations as stimulus reinforcement contingencies reverse (i.e., affective switching).
That's how Mr. Bergeron was as a therapist as well, always upbeat, somewhat less focused on getting to the root of his clients' feelings than altering behavior patterns that were detrimental to them: therapy from the outside-in.
Crime and health-care scholar Harold Pollack discusses the concept of "motivational interviewing" as a means of altering behavior.
Morris (1975) argued that "there is no proof in the conventional sense that by altering behavior in accord with the results of observational studies with have been carried out – controlling weight, abandoning cigarettes, taking adequate exercise, or lowering blood pressure and lipid values in middle age – individual risk and population incidence will be lowered".
To verify behavioral phenotypes, genotypes displaying altered behavior were produced from new crosses and subject to identical retests.
Bacteria can alter behavior to help their survival.
If they get them, they have power and they can alter behavior".
It also sets up the dramatic contrast in the seals' altered behavior.
In the long run, though, he says he hopes to alter behavior and what's considered socially acceptable.
